cbelt3's Journal: NED- or the "O Shit Chip"

Back when I was designing whippy little circuits for a satellite that - um- well, let's just say it looked at interesting things and had to survive a close strike from a nuke, we found a little chiplet (I think it was from Harris) that was called a "Nuclear Effect Detector". Essentially it sensed the prompt gamma pulse that was emitted from a nuclear fusion/fission explosion, and gave our circuitry enough time to play turtle, and pull itself into it's spiffy little beryllium shell.